Extension light-fixture.



EXTENSION LIGHT FIXTURE.

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EXTENSION LIGHT FIXTURE.

APPLICATION FILED 00T. 1I 190B.

Patented June 29, 1909.

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CONRAD M. PITEL, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT.

EXTENSION LIGHT-FIXTURE.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CONRAD M. PITEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Extension Light- Fixtures; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in`

Figure 1 a side view of a xture with an inverted mantle burner constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 a side view partially in section with the suspension device turned a quarter around and shown in connection with the vertically arranged burner. Fig. 3 a sectional view on the line a-b of Fig. 2.

This invention relates to an improvement in extension light fixtures for gas or electric lights, the object being to provide a suspension fixture which may be applied to an ordinary wall bracket or chandelier and the invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claim.

In carrying out my invention I employ a suspension device constructed in substantially the same way as a suspension device for chandeliers except that it is attached to one side of a tube or gas-way 3 which at the i lower end is adaptedY to be engaged with a nipple 4 of known construction which locks onto the end of" a gas jet 5 which may be a wall bracket or one of the arms of a chandelier or any gas jet, this nipple 4 being the nipple employed in connection with a goose neck for a portable light. At the upper end of the tube 3 is a nipple 6 like the nipple 4 for attachment with the socket end 7 ot' a goose neck 8 of usual construction, and which is attached to a flexible conductor 9. On the spring drum 2 is a chain 10 which passes over a roller 11 mounted on a bracket 12 which also supports the drum. For use in connection with an inverted mantle gas burner or for use with electric lights, this chain is connected with a block 13 having a passage Specification oi Letters Patent.

Application filed October 1, 1908.

Patented June 29, 1909. Serial No. 455,745.

through it for the bowed portion 1,4 ol the inverted burner or support for an electric light. To one end of the bowed portion is a horizontal pipe 15 to which the flexible conductor 9 is connected. Adjustably mounted on the pipe 15 is a counterbalaneing weight 16, and the block 13 is adjustably secured to the bowed portion 14 so that it may be moved thereon in order to balance the burner. This suspended burner Whether gas or electric may be raised or lowered at will by simply moving the fixture up and down, the spring drum taking up or releasing the chain 10 as required.

It will thus be seen that I produce a spring operated suspension device for a reading light which may be applied to an ordinary bracket fixture, or to an arm of a chandelier, and without disturbing that fixture as the device will stand within the ordinary globe which is usually placed over the burner. A large bowed goose neck may be employed il so desired to reach over the top ol a globe and thus bring the conductor farther away from the lamp.

My invention is also equally applicable to vertically arranged mantle burners as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, in which I employ the same suspension device and connect it in the same way with the bracket 5. In this case the chain 10 extends into a vertically arranged pipe 17 and is secured to a block 1S in which the pipe 17 is mounted and so that the chain acts to prevent the burner from rocking. This block 1S is adjuster-bly secured on a horizontal pipe 19 to which the flexible conductor 9 is attached and on which is adjustably mounted the counterbalaiicing weight 16. This weight is weighted with gun-shot, and can therewith be regulated so as to balance the spring for a lighter or heavier fixture or burner. On the tube 17 is a spring collar 20 having outwardly extending slotted arms 21 between which extend the arms 22 of a supporting ring 23, the arms 21 and 22 being connected by a screw 24 and so that the burner is supported in a vertical position and may be moved toward or from the tube 17 according to the style of globe employed.

It will thus be seen that my invention is applicable to various forms of drop lights connected with said chain, substantially as 10 Which may be readily applied to Wall brackdescribed.

ets or chandeliers. In testimony whereof, I have signed this lspecification in the presence of two suloscrilo I claim The combination with a gas-Way adapted ing Witnesses. to be applied to a gas fixture and adapted to CONRAD M. PTEL. have a goose neck attached to its upper end, Witnesses: of a spring drum mounted on one side of said FREDERIC C. EARLE., gas-Way, a chain on said drum, and a burner C, L. VEED. 

